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Customer Reviews for WaterBrook Press One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
WaterBrook Press One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
What if you only had one month to live? How would you make each day really matter? What would you start, or stop, doing? How would you relate to others? One Month to Live empowers you to focus on being who God created you to be--passionate, fully alive, living without regrets. Written in 30 short insightful chapters, this is one month's journey you'll never forget.
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Customer Reviews for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
Review 1 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:February 13, 2013
Granma
Location:Williamsburg, VA
Age:Over 65
Gender:female
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Our minister did a 5 Sunday series on this book and everone
is now so revived and eager to share the Love of Jesus.
is now so revived and eager to share the Love of Jesus.
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Review 2 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Best book I've read in months
Date:December 7, 2012
Holly
Location:Denver ,CO
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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This book was excellent! I've read it once, listened to it on CD once, now now I'm giving away 10 of them for Christmas.
It taught me that we should treat our loved ones each day as if our days our numbered. We should have an attitude that monetary items don't matter. Making peace with the ones that mean alot to us is crucial. And, making peace with ourselves is most important...forgive yourself for those things we continually hang on to.
It taught me that we should treat our loved ones each day as if our days our numbered. We should have an attitude that monetary items don't matter. Making peace with the ones that mean alot to us is crucial. And, making peace with ourselves is most important...forgive yourself for those things we continually hang on to.
This book placed things in perspective for me.
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Review 3 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:November 2, 2012
Bonnie
Location:NC
Age:55-65
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I purchased this copy for a gift after reading this book. I have enjoyed it very much.
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Review 4 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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This book is thought provoking and challenging.
Date:October 11, 2012
JayVee
Location:Grifton, NC
Age:Over 65
Gender:female
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This book is thought provoking and challenges a closer, daily walk with our Lord, showing His love to those around us.
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Review 5 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Look forward to reading
Date:October 6, 2012
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I look forward to reading this book. I remember seeing the authors speak about this book on their television broadcast and it looks like a good teaching. The book is in perfect condition. The cover is clean, even pretty, inviting you to read the book.
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Review 6 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:September 25, 2012
Jeni
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I have faciliated this study four times.
I liked getting the half price books.
I liked getting the half price books.
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Review 7 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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too broad, I wish it were issue-specific
Date:November 18, 2011
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Love, love, love the concept of this book! Having faced end-of-life crises with patients in the past, and more recently with a family member, this book really called out to me. Once you see mortality catch another off guard, you can't help but face the finite nature of your own life. How wonderful to have Christian authors help us "embrace our mortality and be empowered to live each day engaged in being fully alive."
But is that what One Month has done? Am I now "engaged in being fully alive", for having read One Month? Well, not exactly. That's not to say authors Kerry and Chris Shook don't give readers all the tools to embrace their mortality and engage in life. I'd actually say the extreme opposite is true. The Shook team may have actually gone overboard, to the book's detriment, in attempting to cover all possible issues in a 30-day time span.
For the first few days, I felt inspired, motivated, and convicted to make some changes in my life. But before I had finished even one week of the book, I realized 2 things:
Number One: too much information was covered in a given day. The daily readings averaged 6-8 pages, and included several multi-part reflection questions, and I do mean multi! In that sense, the ideas that were discussed and the questions that they spawned would have been better worked through over the course of a week (which, incidentally, would have made this a 30-week program... yikes!). There would be no way to actually make this degree of meaningful life change on a daily basis, with new life changes being added on a daily basis. And although many of the changes suggested didn't apply to my present life, I quickly became overwhelmed by all the ideas and inspirations accumulating each day.
Number Two: too many topics were addressed in the month. I hope it would be a rare person who struggles in each of these 30 areas in their daily life; I imagine most readers are like me, and gravitate towards a few key areas that need improvement. That being the case, I might prefer to spend a month reading only about the issues that apply to me, rather than trying to sift through every problem every reader might ever face. Thirty topic-specific days might have yielded more fruitful results.
Presumably, some readers will be inspired by this book. Hopefully most among that group will also feel the conviction to make the inspired changes, and be strengthened by God to follow through. Unfortunately, none of these were the case in my experience with One Month to Live.
I received this book free from WaterBrook Press for the purpose of providing my honest review. I was not required to give a positive review.
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Review 8 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Practical Christian Living Advice
Date:November 11, 2011
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"One Month to Live" by Kerry and Chris Shook is a book chock full of great advice on living an abundant Christian life. It’s divided into four sections of seven or eight short chapters each: Live Passionately, Love Completely, Learn Humbly, and Leave Boldly. Each chapter contains an analogy or two from life experiences such as mountain climbing, scuba diving, and roller coaster riding. Readers are encouraged to enjoy one chapter a day for thirty days while considering how they would live their lives if they knew they only had thirty days left.
The title, "One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life," almost kept me from even considering the book. I chose to read it because I'd heard good things about the authors. But the concept itself sounded guilt-inducing, pressure filled, and perfectionistic. “Don’t waste a moment. Take advantage of every opportunity, or suffer the consequences and live with regret for the rest of your life!” This book is not that. The theme is simply the package that neatly wraps up all of the Shook’s ideas and leads readers to the corresponding website for more: www.onemonthtolive.com.
What the reader will find in this book is basic and sound, practical and biblical advice on Christian living. The Shooks encourage readers to love God, to love each other, to do whatever God leads them to do, and to encourage others to do the same. If you are looking for an upbeat and uplifting 30-day-devotional on how to live the Christian life, I recommend this book.
Thank you, Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers, for sending a complimentary copy for my honest review.
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Review 9 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Someday Starts Today
Date:April 11, 2011
Elder Wiggins
Location:Detroit, MI
Age:35-44
Gender:female
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Ask yourself the hard questions, because someday starts today. "One Month to Live" is a book that will change your life, if you let it. It's a reminder that time is a precious commodity and a valuable, though limited resource. There are four universal principles guiding a life of no-regrets:
1. Live Passionately
2. Love Completely
3. Learn Humbly
4. Leave Boldly
2. Love Completely
3. Learn Humbly
4. Leave Boldly
Each of those principles is explored in a way that makes you think while making the focus personally applicable to your life. The book encourages you to stop waiting on "someday", but to live with passion and purpose everyday making the most of those 24 hours. I could not read those pages without examining my own life and what's most important to me. It reminds you that you don't have to wait until there is a crisis (terminal medical prognosis, death of a loved one, etc.) to start living each day knowing that the next one is not promised.
The daily assignments are appropriate regardless of your educational attainment, cultural background or economic status. I love how you can read this personally, or as a part of a group discussion, which I plan to do next. I've heard some say "it's too late for me", but this book lets you know that though it may be late, it's never too late if you're still here.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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Review 10 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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A practical book, but the message is not new
Date:April 6, 2011
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I think that Kerry and Chris Shook have written a book that will be helpful, especially to new believers or beleivers who want to put their faith into practical action steps. I found the book easy to read and thought that they had some good analogies and advice.
The problem I had with the book was timing. I feel that in the last few years I have repeatedly read or heard the message contained in this book. As a result, the book did not impact me as much as it could have.
Of course, the ultimate test of the message in this book is whether or not I will apply what I have learned. I look forward to taking those practical steps.
I received a free publisher's copy of this book for review purposes from Multnomah's Blogging for Books.
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Review 11 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Great book
Date:March 7, 2011
alcolosk
Location:MI
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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Good biblical basis. My SUnday school class is reading this book together. I am also enjoying the website which gives you even more help expecially in the physical and financial areas.
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Review 12 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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One Month To Live
Date:February 24, 2011
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How am I living my life? How am I spending my time? Am I living life to the fullest? "Living the dash"? Just a few questions that hit me in the face as I began reading One Month To Live. I began with the intention of a 30 day/one month journey, but I found that I could not put this book down. Be prepared for lots of self examination, hard questions to answer, challenges from the authors, and even a contract to sign - "The One-Month-To-Live-Challenge". This book will reveal to you a fresh and much-needed eternal perspective and you will be reminded of the true depth and meaning that God has in store for each of our lives. A great resource to help you live your life to the fullest: living the dash.
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Review 13 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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What a challenge
Date:February 15, 2011
vtkid
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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This book's premise is to live as if you only have one month left to live. What would you change? How would you live differently? Or would you?
Our lives are truly a vapor as the Bible tells us. No one knows for sure if this really is their last 30 days or not.....so why not live like it may be? This is actually something that God would have us do. Psalm 90:12 states: "Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
Kerry & Chris Shook come from a perspective of watching people live their last days. They have ministered to many in the final stages of death and have seen various reactions. This led them to challenge their staff to live the next 30 days as if it were their last and to journal what happened. That challenge led to this book.
Our lives are truly a vapor as the Bible tells us. No one knows for sure if this really is their last 30 days or not.....so why not live like it may be? This is actually something that God would have us do. Psalm 90:12 states: "Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
Kerry & Chris Shook come from a perspective of watching people live their last days. They have ministered to many in the final stages of death and have seen various reactions. This led them to challenge their staff to live the next 30 days as if it were their last and to journal what happened. That challenge led to this book.
The book is divided into 4 principles:
Live Passionately
Love Completely
Learn Humbly
Leave Boldly
Live Passionately
Love Completely
Learn Humbly
Leave Boldly
They give daily challenges to complete with "make it count moments" questions and "make it last for life" actions.
The writing style is personal and friendly. This is not a "you'd better do it this way" book. I have found it to be encouraging, yet challenging. So much so that I have decided to take the challenge! Beginning March 1st, I am going to live as if I've only 30 days left...and journal it .
*I was given a complimentary copy to review from Blogging for Books
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Review 14 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Wonderful way to live!
Date:January 24, 2011
nana
Location:Dubuque, IA
Age:55-65
Gender:female
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This book has changed my life and the way I plan on living from now on.God's plan for us all is to live life to the fullest, why haven't we? I recommend this book to anyone who wants to change their life and live a Christ filled life.
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Review 15 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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It's user friendly
Date:October 7, 2010
Art Bankes
Location:East Springfield, PA
Age:Over 65
Gender:male
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Was not expecting this book/study guide to be so easy to use for group or congregation use..thanks CBD
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Review 16 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:July 19, 2010
Michele Pickel
This is a real life changer!! After the first chapter amazing things started happening as I changed some of my thinking and attitudes.
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Date:January 24, 2010
Linda Wallo
I purchased this book for the church library. One of our small group participants started reading it and now we hope to introduce it to the congregation and start a church wide study and also open it to anyone in the community that might want to join this group study as well. I feel this book has the same draw as Rick Warren had with his Purpose Driven series.
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Review 18 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:November 10, 2009
Gail Davis
The best book I have ever read. It really makes you think about your live and how you are now living. I took the 30 day challenge, and had to look at my life and change some things. I am giving this book for Christmas presents to about everyone I know, it is that great. Gail Davis
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Review 19 for One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life
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Date:September 25, 2009
Judy Mcarthur
A Chapter a day for thirty days so I have just started reading this book. But so far....its amazing and really reccommend this book for others
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Date:February 20, 2009
Jimmye Jackson
Great book. We're using it in our Bible Study and have been blessed and inspired!
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